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by duopixel 12y ago
I'm not sure there's a point in ranking cities. I've lived in a handful of the cities listed, and their ranking has very little to do with my own perception of them. Cities are a bit like people in the sense that they have a
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by duopixel 12y ago
This is a bug indeed, thanks for the notice. (changed the way this was detected and I accidentally the whole thing, sigh).
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by duopixel 12y ago
Key in getting adept at bézier curves is guessing the form of the curve in advance, this is why curves can't be modified (otherwise it's just better to practice tracing in your favorite design tool).
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by duopixel 12y ago
Author here. That's the way Adobe Illustrator thinks Bézier curves should work, unfortunately. I have no idea why,I chose to follow their lead because the purpose is learning how to use a tool. Still on the fence on this one, I even ha
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The Pleasure of Designing your own Furniture(medium.com)
76 points by duopixel 12y ago|42 comments
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by duopixel 13y ago
From your text it's clear to me that you're not "burned out", you are depressed. Social isolation triggered it, and now you feel like a failure because your thinking habits are diseased. Usually when we fail at something
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by duopixel 13y ago
This. Most people are unfortunately unaware that having a unique skill set (be it a second language or anything else) puts them at an advantage if applied in tandem. However, you often have to invent your own job.
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by duopixel 13y ago
This is inane. Why is a cat friendly towards human visitors, yet hostile towards feline ones? We show human signs affection towards cats, why wouldn't they use their own body language towards us?
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by duopixel 13y ago
Read this '72 Playboy interview: http://www.cesc.net/adobeweb/scholars/fuller/buckminsterfull... His foresight is amazing. Just a snippet: "Very soon we’ll have little devices on our wrists and we’l
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by duopixel 13y ago
The skull labeled as Homo Sapiens is actually a Homo Erectus, which precedes us by 1.5 million years. Amazing athletic performance, crude tools and possible domestication of fire.
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by duopixel 13y ago
Population growth rate is declining all over the world, but the effect is more pronounced in developed countries. As standard of living increases people tend to have less children.
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by duopixel 13y ago
Went through the whole video, looks superbly promising even at it's beta stage. It is obvious the authors get best front-end development practices as well as design principles. Definitely will follow up.
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by duopixel 13y ago
I've read and throughly enjoyed "The Conquest of America" and "The Defense of Enlightenment", but these are topics I already liked. Todorov goes really deep into the topics he's writing about, so I'd chose
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by duopixel 13y ago
I've kept an eye on continental social science since leaving university, and I must say that—for most practical reasons— it's useless. It is not, however, worthless (quite the opposite). You might be familiar with Feynman's s
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The cost of hustling(blog.method.ac)
27 points by duopixel 13y ago|10 comments
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by duopixel 13y ago
I think building stuff is hugely underrated. When I look around most people are working on stuff that concerns being interfaces to complex systems (lawyers, doctors, customer service), communication (formal and informal jounalism, technical
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by duopixel 13y ago
I think $100/mo is a good price for tested backups. But it's only in hindsight that I can see this is a good deal. To the average person, backing up means connecting an external HD and let Time Machine/whatever take it from there.
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by duopixel 13y ago
Yes, but each of these come at the proper moment. The iTunes Store covers most of 3, 4 and 5 as an indie dev and then, if you feel comfortable, scale up to be a "company".
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by duopixel 13y ago
I am not sure these are rabbit holes. One can certainly get lost in the depth of a new discipline, but you can take a look around new ideas start sprouting. I am an interaction designer, for example, but working with email got me thinking i
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by duopixel 13y ago
You are nitpicking, opening ports was a google search away. It's just to give an idea of my experience doing ops at the time (nothing beyond shared hosting).
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by duopixel 13y ago
I'm that guy whom the post is talking about. I decided against weighing in on the original thread on HN because I was still dealing with the downfall. A couple of things that I noticed: * Our users were very understanding of what happen
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by duopixel 13y ago
The difference is smaller, yes. However, when you make simple things of poor craftmanship (in design, code or anything) you can't fool anybody. That's a good thing too.
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by duopixel 13y ago
What really happens when you have flat design is that you can't hide your mediocrity behind layers of eye candy. Assume that you give both a carpenter craftsman and an amateur instructions to build a table. You only want solid blocks of woo
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by duopixel 13y ago
I know this sounds repulsive, but I think a good shortcut to lab grown meat would be similar to KFC's urban myth of "headless organisms fed by tubes" [1]. If you give it a bit of thought, it might be more ethical raising brainless and sense
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by duopixel 13y ago
What a wonderful person. I sometimes take the time to contact teachers that have made an impact in my professional/personal life and thank them for setting me on the right course. It's a really simple gesture but they are always thrilled to
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by duopixel 13y ago
A design becomes "timeless" when the problem is solves spans several generations. The need for paperclips hasn't declined, and this is because of it's simplicity and performance (timeless needs). I do think, however, that the car metaphor i
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by duopixel 13y ago
This is great, it even provides hardware acceleration for browsers that support CSS 3D transformations (which is important on mobile devices), all without the overhead of jQuery UI.
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by duopixel 13y ago
I think this happens because we're poor judges of character. Yes, there's many bozos out there, but if you ask enough questions you will be able to differentiate them. I'm still working on this, but I've seen that if you put aside your prec
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by duopixel 13y ago
iOS Safari supports element.classList since iOS 5. You can do... element.classList.add('classname') element.classList.remove('classname') element.classList.contains('classname') element.classList.toggle('classname')
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by duopixel 14y ago
I'm glad to see Erik Dahlström of Opera on the list of editors. He is really active in stackoverflow[1] often pointing out clarification on tough SVG questions. I'm sure he is aware of the difficulties us average web developers face when ap

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